Posted on 04/22/2019 7:02:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
Parked Tesla Spontaneously Explodes In Chinese Garage
About 24 hours ahead of Tesla’s coming “Investor Day” and just moments after we broke the news that Tesla had been granted a restraining order on a short seller who has been critical of the company on Twitter, stunning video has surfaced of a Tesla catching fire and exploding, while parked.
A self proclaimed Tesla owner in Shanghai that Tweets under the name @ShanghaiJayIn posted video on his Twitter moments ago of what appears to be a Tesla Model S, 1st generation, catching fire spontaneously in a Chinese parking garage.
Video at the bottom shows the aftermath of the fire…
Aftermath hopefully we will hear from Tesla what truly happened. pic.twitter.com/DuFi0pW9dk
— Jay in Shanghai (@ShanghaiJayin) April 21, 2019
There was a Tesla here that got on fire is a crash and the fire couldn’t be put out. Pouring water on a lithium battery fire is like pouring gas on a fire.
It happens. Legendary rock band Spinal Tap lost a drummer to spontaneous combustion.
Must have been a GM thing..............
Had an older Volvo backfire at a light, the fuel lines were not fireproof...electric fuel pumps, pump without the engine running! LOTS!
Not an unusual occurrence.
Happens all over France, all the time?
Camera moved at start?
“Many more than the one much-hyped US gas car burning “on camera” by the (Staged) TV cameramen.”
Hundreds of gas cars self-ignite each year in the US each DAY!
“It is a chemical fire.”
As compared to non chemical fires? I thought all fires were a chemical reaction.
Def. Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
” It is a chemical fire.”
Please cite an example of a non-chemical fire ...
FIREFIGHTING
USE WATER TO FIGHT A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FIRE. If the battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is generating heat or gases, use large amounts of water to cool the battery. It can take approximately 3,000 gallons of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request an additional water supply. If water is not immediately
available, use dry chemicals, CO2, foam, or another typical
fire-extinguishing agent to fight the fire until water is available.
https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders
Many other EV’s have the same issue. Of course conventional vehicles have caught on fire also - many times. The problem with lithium batteries is that you have to reduce the heat in core. A standard extinguisher will not do that. Put the flame out and it will reignite.
Ya. How many gallons vs one little harmless cellphone battery?
It’s not as though ICE vehicles haven’t been known to spontaneously combust while parked. Didn’t Ford have a whole bunch of pickups or something that were prone to that.
And yes, while a 100 KWh battery certainly contains a lot of energy and will burn very hot, 20 gallons of gasoline also contains a lot of energy, burns hot, and is not that easy to extinguish.
My issue with electric cars is not the technology itself, but the silly lies and half-truths used to promote them, from a practical and environmental point of view.
Please cite an example of a non-chemical fire ...
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Donald Trump firing Jeff Sessions.
Defective ignition switches. Not just pickups but across the lineup.......................
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The necessary “fire extinguisher” would exceed the towing capacity of a Tesla!
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When I was a small child, early 60’s, I remember my uncles, then in their 20’s, were doing something like turning the ignition off and back on again while going slow that would cause a backfire on their 40’s and 50’s era automobiles.............
The sun........................
Perhaps an ‘on-board’ halon extinguisher system.................
“Squirt water on it and it’ll explode bigger.”
Water was used to successfully extinguish all fires during the suppression tests;
https://www.sfpe.org/page/2014_Q2_3
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